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Iason Athanasiadis is a photojournalist, documentary film-maker and writer working on the intersection of the Eastern Mediterranean with the Arab, Persian and Turkic Middle East and Central Asia. A fluent Arabic, Persian and Turkish speaker, he has covered some of the contemporary region’s signature crises and lived in Cairo, Damascus, Libya's Tripoli, Sanaa and Tehran. He is currently based between Athens, Istanbul and Tunis. Iason has worked on several news and documentary films, as well as on-spec shooting assignments. In 2017 he received the Anna Lindh Foundation's 10th Anniversary Mediterranean Journalism Award's alumni prize for a series of articles he had written about formerly cosmopolitan ports of the Mediterranean and their psychogeography. Between 2011 and 2018 he worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Libya. For more information, check out https://culturistan.org/resident/iasonathanasiadis/ |